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_Mister'd_, reduced to difficulties, S. B.

_To_ ~Mister~, ~Mystre~, _v. n._

1. To be necessary.

_Barbour._

2. To be in straits.

_Balfour._

~Mystir~, _adj._ Necessary.

_Barbour._

~Mistirful~, _adj._ Necessitous.

_Douglas._

~Mistry~, _s._ Strait.

_Barbour._

MISTLIE, _adj._

1. Dull, solitary, from the absence of some object to which one is attached. Loth. Roxb.; also _misslie_.

_Gl. Sibb._

2. Bewildered on a road, Roxb.

3. Dreary, ibid. _Eerie_ synon.

From Su. G. _mist-a_, to want, and _lik_ expressing state or resemblance: or Teut. _misselick_, incertus in quo errare potest. This closely corresponds with sense 2.

_To_ MISTRAIST, _v. n._ To mistrust.

V. ~Traist~.

_Wallace._

_To_ MISTRYST, _v. a._ To break an engagement with, S.

V. ~Tryst~.

_Gl. Sibb._